Roman Charity Queer Lactations in Early Modern Visual Culture

• Auteur principal: Gisela Sperling, Jutta (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2016
• Collection: Image 87
• Sujets: Theory of art; early modern history; patriarchy; visual culture; fine arts; cultural history; queer studies; queer theory; visual studies; gender; art; art history; image; Caravaggio; Cimon; Roman Charity
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

»Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with« and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (430 p.)

ISBN

9783839432846
9783837632842

Accès

Open Access